Nested detail_route in django-rest-framework

Question

Consider a simple view:

class SomeView(viewsets.GenericViewSet, viewsets.mixins.ListModelMixin, viewsets.mixins.RetrieveModelMixin): ... @decorators.detail_route(methods=ENDPOINT_PROPERTY_METHODS) def some_property(self, request, *args, **kwargs): view = SomeOtherView return view.as_view(CRUD_ACTIONS)(request, *args, **kwargs) 

I'm calling SomeOtherView to be able to have an endpoint property, like /someresource/:id/myproperty , so this property will receive a request and can do all CRUD actions.

But I want SomeOtherView have a declared detail_route inside too, to have something like /someresource/:id/myproperty/nestedproperty .
Since I call SomeOtherView dynamically, URLs cannot be registered, so the attached property cannot be called.

How can I resolve this situation to have nested properties?

Answer 1

There is currently no own way to automatically create nested routes in the django-rest-framework, but there are some ways to achieve your goal:

• To use drf extensions, what you are looking for are nested routers: https://chibisov.imtqy.com/drf-extensions/docs/#nested-routes
• create paths manually using default routers, here you need to filter the request manually

Although you did not explain in detail what you want to achieve with the api structure using this structure, I would not continue this path because the views are not intended to be used in this way.